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war in iraq. and the question remabs was it worth it? after the loss of nearly 45 hundred american troops and many more iraqi lives and the expenditure of more than $800 billion dollars. just what sort of iraq was the united states military leaving behind? michael gordon is joining us now. he's the coauthor of the new book entitled "the end game." so this is an amazing book. was it worth it. that whole many years of the war in iraq, the cost and blood and treasure. >> well, i think the question at this point is the war happened. the decision to invade was made. in 2002, 2003. the question is, what sort of relationship should the united states have with iraq now. how did the obama administration handle the end of the war and where do we go from here. >> those are all important questions, but the whole war was built on a faulty prim is that saddam had weapons of mass destruction. >> i think it's conceded that they didn't have weapons of mass destruction. >> i remember i was in kuwait on the eve of the war. i had a gas masks, they were real
war in iraq. and the question remabs was it worth it? after the loss of nearly 45 hundred american troops and many more iraqi lives and the expenditure of more than $800 billion dollars. just what sort of iraq was the united states military leaving behind? michael gordon is joining us now. he's the coauthor of the new book entitled "the end game." so this is an amazing book. was it worth it. that whole many years of the war in iraq, the cost and blood and treasure. >> well, i...
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bush to attack iraq in the wake of 9/11. go in, overthrow a dictator, turn the country over to the people and presto. well, violence continues in iraq and people die there everyday. egypt's now in the hands of the muslim brotherhood. mubarak's gone. they had elections there. and yesterday violent mobs assaulted the u.s. embassy compound. in libya moammar gadhafi's gone. the u.s. ambassador and three other people are dead because some terrorists in that country didn't like a movie critical of islam. syria's become a slaughter house murdering the civilian population at will. iran continues the march toward nuclear weapons. i don't want to even think what might happen if they get them. and al qaeda is busy reconstitutes itself in pakistan and half a dozen other countries. the song writer who wrote the phrase, wishing won't make it so, spot-on. and anybody who thinks the middle east is suddenly going to transform itself into a peaceful civilization where majority rules, they just haven't been reading the history books. here's th
bush to attack iraq in the wake of 9/11. go in, overthrow a dictator, turn the country over to the people and presto. well, violence continues in iraq and people die there everyday. egypt's now in the hands of the muslim brotherhood. mubarak's gone. they had elections there. and yesterday violent mobs assaulted the u.s. embassy compound. in libya moammar gadhafi's gone. the u.s. ambassador and three other people are dead because some terrorists in that country didn't like a movie critical of...
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the wars in iraq and afghanistan were in full swing and public sentiment was souring. but he kept a full schedule at the u.n. meeting with leaders of japan, india, iraq, afghanistan and pakistan. >> i want to welcome prime minister netanyahu both to the united states. >> reporter: and one year ago in new york president obama kept very busy meeting with israeli prime minister netanyahu, president karzai of afghanistan and prime minister of turkey. those were just some of his eleven meetings with world leaders last september. of course that wasn't an election year. and president obama was flying high on foreign policy successes. osama bin laden had been killed months before. and the demonstrations of the arab spring brought hope that democracy was blossoming in the middle east. so why no official meetings with world leaders? well, wolf, the white house press secretary jay carney says that the president has had extensive consultations with world leaders. and so really sort of pointing to the fact that there is this open dialogue. but obviously when you look at this you kn
the wars in iraq and afghanistan were in full swing and public sentiment was souring. but he kept a full schedule at the u.n. meeting with leaders of japan, india, iraq, afghanistan and pakistan. >> i want to welcome prime minister netanyahu both to the united states. >> reporter: and one year ago in new york president obama kept very busy meeting with israeli prime minister netanyahu, president karzai of afghanistan and prime minister of turkey. those were just some of his eleven...
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in iraq, al qaeda carries out bombings there every month. in north africa they've joined forces with other islamist extremists and are training terrorists from algeria, morocco and nigeria. in egypt, sanai peninsula trying to start a war between egypt and israel. great. and the fastest growing al chi dad operation is in syria thriving on the civil war and chaos there. they carried out more than 60 attacks in june alone. but their top priority remains attacking the united states and europe. and as newsweek writes "in fighting terror, our team has to stay lucky 100% of the time. al qaeda only has to be lucky once." here's the question, how much safer do you feel 11 years after 9/11? go to cnn.com slash caffertyfile or go to our post on the "the situation room" facebook page. >> jack, thank you. >>> many of the families of the loved ones that died on that day, for one family the whole image has dramatically changed all because of one chilling note that only just surfaced recently. brian todd is here in "the situation room." he's got the details
in iraq, al qaeda carries out bombings there every month. in north africa they've joined forces with other islamist extremists and are training terrorists from algeria, morocco and nigeria. in egypt, sanai peninsula trying to start a war between egypt and israel. great. and the fastest growing al chi dad operation is in syria thriving on the civil war and chaos there. they carried out more than 60 attacks in june alone. but their top priority remains attacking the united states and europe. and...
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and in iraq, protesters stepped on and then burned a symbolic american flag as rival sunni and shiite muslims marched together. libyan authorities have now made at least one arrest in connection with the attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi. let's go live to our pentagon correspondent chris lawrence getting new details on what's going on. chris, what are you learning? >> yeah, wolf, just in the past few hours libya's own prime minister told cnn's own christiane amonopore have arrested one man. he is currently being interrogated. and libyan authorities say they have several others under surveillance and more arrests may be on the way. meantime, u.s. intelligence officials say they are digging deeper and getting more information about who may have been behind this attack. at this point they say it does not appear to be a core al qaeda group, wolf. >> what does that mean? a core al chi da affiliate groups. what does that mean, a core al qaeda group? >> they think it's very possible that this could have been an al qaeda-inspired group. some group that is not directly affiliated with t
and in iraq, protesters stepped on and then burned a symbolic american flag as rival sunni and shiite muslims marched together. libyan authorities have now made at least one arrest in connection with the attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi. let's go live to our pentagon correspondent chris lawrence getting new details on what's going on. chris, what are you learning? >> yeah, wolf, just in the past few hours libya's own prime minister told cnn's own christiane amonopore have arrested...
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he has the courage to make the tough calls on education, health care, medicare, ending the war in iraq, bringing end to the war in afghanistan. [ cheers and applause ] folks, this president is going to level the playing field again and bring the middle class back in the game for a change. [ applause ] he knows how america was built. he knows it was built by the growing great middle class. and he knows and i know something our opponents either don't know or seem to have forgotten, america is not on the decline, america is on the rise! [ cheers and applause ] let me say again what i said last night to our opponents. gentlemen, it is never, never a good bet to bet against the american people. [ cheers and applause ] folks, you know folks on campus know the president better than just about anybody in any state. you know he only has one gear, forward, forward, forward! and ladies and gentlemen, it is my honor to introduce you to you my friend, president barack obama! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> hello hawkers. it is good to be back at the university of iowa. a couple of people i want to m
he has the courage to make the tough calls on education, health care, medicare, ending the war in iraq, bringing end to the war in afghanistan. [ cheers and applause ] folks, this president is going to level the playing field again and bring the middle class back in the game for a change. [ applause ] he knows how america was built. he knows it was built by the growing great middle class. and he knows and i know something our opponents either don't know or seem to have forgotten, america is not...
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and in iraq, he's been, again, there have been some criticisms of the obama policy. but it's really hard to see exactly where that would play out from here. those would be three critical areas. afghanistan, iraq and iran. >> over the weekend on "state of the union," cnn's candy crowley actually interviewed the prime minister of israel, netanyahu. i wanted to play a clip for you. just listen. >> this is not an electoral issue. it is not based on any electoral consideration. i think that there's a common interest of all americans of all political persuasions to stop iran. this is a regime that is giving vent to the worst impulse that is you see right now in the middle east. >> do you agree with that? do you think this is not an electoral issue and what do you believe the relationship is between mitt romney and prime minister netanyahu? >> well, when a prime minister of any country goes on sunday talk shows or on any other program like that and appears before the american public and makes his case about where america should place its red lines -- obviously, he's interfe
and in iraq, he's been, again, there have been some criticisms of the obama policy. but it's really hard to see exactly where that would play out from here. those would be three critical areas. afghanistan, iraq and iran. >> over the weekend on "state of the union," cnn's candy crowley actually interviewed the prime minister of israel, netanyahu. i wanted to play a clip for you. just listen. >> this is not an electoral issue. it is not based on any electoral consideration....